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Skidmore News
Proceeds from this paper to start a Student Endowed Scholarship Fund
VOL. 3—NO. 20 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928 PRICE 10 CENTS
MARION THOMPSON
STUDENT LECTURER
Discusses E. Gordon Craig Before Art Appreciation Class
“Two people stand out in my mind as revolutionary leaders in The New Theatre, Ibsen and Craig,” said Marion Thompson, who, as a senior student of Stagecraft, addressed the class in Art Appreciation last Thursday in connection with the exhibition in the studio of E. Gordon Craig’s wood-block prints. “Ibsen rid the drama of its old dramatic farm, its artificiality, and breathed a new life and spirit into it. Craig cast loose all accepted traditions of playhouse conventions.”
Mr. Craig was born in 1872. He is fitted by heredity and experience to speak authoritatively of matters of the playhouse. He is the son of Ellen Terry, the greatest English speaking actress of her time, and E. W. Godwin, an architect and stage designer of the theatre. He was brought up to appreciate the truly beautiful in Art, and to dislike the cheap, gaudy, ornamentalities. He is whimsically sensitive sort of person, with a childish naivete that they say is sometimes the sign of genius.
In the prints exhibited here, I believe it is shown that he catches rare expression and fleeting poses in his work. If you notice, his work is the epitome of creativeness. No two things are the same. He worships
(Continued on Page Three).
SKIDMORE CHORUS NEW YORK. TOUR
The Skidmore College Chorus of sixty girls, under the direction and leadership of Mr. A. Stanley Osborn, leaves Thursday for its two day concert tour. Thursday evening a concert will be given at Newburgh, under the auspices of the Woman’s Club of that city, who will entertain the •chorus over night. Friday morning the chorus will go to New York city, and the concert that night will be given in the grand ballroom of the Plaza Hotel at 8:15. A dance will follow the concert, the music being furnish by a prominent New York city orchestra. Chorus members under Mr. Osborn’s direction have been preparing for the concert since Christmas. The program is of unusually high merit, and the numbers have been selected as typical of the century in which they were written. The program includes early century music up to a modern composition, that of Louis Edgar Johns, Head of the Piano Department at Skidmore ,and is as follows:
Adoramus Te Christe .... Palestrina Matona, Lovely Maiden .......... Orlando Lassus
No. 17 and 12 from Christmas Oratorio ........ John Sebastian Bach
Within Yon Gloomy Manger Lies Break Forth O Beauteous, Heavenly Light My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair...........Josef Haydn
Meditation ............... J. S. Bach
Ave Verum, from The Holy City.................. W. A. Mozart
It Shall Be Light ...... A. R. Gaul
Sing Praise to God, the Lord 150 Psalm.................. Caesar Franck
Fly, Singing Bird .... Edward Elgar
From Night to Light ........................ Louis Edgar Johns
The financial management and
(Continued on Page Two)
PHYSICIAN INTERPRETS HALLUCINATIONS
Dr. Campbell Explains Theories at District Psychological Convention
REPORTED BY BERNICE COLE
“It is said that psychology first lost its soul; a few centuries later it lost its mind, and recently it lost its consciousness,” stated Dr. Macfie Campbell of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital at the district convention of the Upper New York State Psychologists held at Skidmore College last Friday and Saturday.
In outlining the procedure of his presentation of the topic of “Some Aspects of Hallucinations,” Dr. Campbell claimed that his only excuse for bringing this material to a body of psychologists was to gain their cooperation and to invite them to take an interest in the physician’s problems rather than consider that the physicians have any very important contribution to make, any new principles or any detailed and convincing study of the subject under consideration. It is not the physician’s word as against the psychologist’s word in this matter of mental disorder. Dr. Campbell pointed out, so muon as it is the physician’s method of experimentation as against the psychologist’s method of experimentation. The latter very often is working under definitely controlled conditions and with instruments of very great precision. In dealing with many of the human reactions, the psychologist is not able to experiment with any material which in any way influences detrimentally the individual’s life or residue. He is, therefore, debarred from dealing experimentally with those very factors which are of most practical importance. The physician, on the other hand, takes individuals who have failed adequately to meet certain tests of nature-—failure in the way of choosing a career—failure in regard to mating, to fulfilling many desires and to making necessary social adjustments. So what the physicians are dealing with in psychopathic hospitals is experimental material where they have not set the conditions, but where nature has set the conditions. Many problems, stated Dr. Campbell, arise from this group of cases where the patients have a distorted attitude towards life and must be confined in the safe-guarded atmosphere of a hospital. They may be briefly stated as follows: the actual meaning of mental deterioration; the factors which govern this particular distortion of the -universe, so that the patient lives in a disillusioned atmosphere and the particular factor which determines the sensory experience which the patient talks of.
Hallucinations from Structural Disturbance of the Brain.
Hallucinations, Dr. Campbell claims, play a different role in different types of cases. In general they are extraordinarily vivid and dramatic. An hallucinated person does not react when the ordinary person reacts, and then, besides, these experiences where the experience is a sensory one seem to have little influence on the conduct of the patient. In some cases, as soon as one challenges the phenomena or fantasy of the patient, he immediately shifts it and claims that it is an experience of a different type. In a case of hearing, for example, the patient says it is some sort of an experience, but not the same thing as when one is talking to him.
The term, hallucination, however, is a very vague and uncertain one. Speaking of an hallucination of hearing does not necessarily tell one anything about the real sensory quality of that experience. The patient can give a much more definite statement in that respect. What the physician is interested in knowing is just what the actual experience is—whether it is localized and the patient recognizes the voice he says he hears. In many instances, the patient claims it is a voice actually heard within his head. In other instances, he claims he hears a voice within his thorax or abdominal cavity, or perhaps the traditional “still, small voice of conscience.” Still more difficult to analyze is the experience of one who hears a certain person speaking in the back of his skull. Among the more familiar factors which may faring about these abnormal sensory experiences are certain structural changes in the brain, changes due to a vascular damage or perhaps a tumor on the brain. Dr. Campbell, in concluding his discussion on this particular aspect of the problem, referred to a case of a woman who claimed she must obey a voice within her that said she could not serve “two masters,” and added by way of comment that it was a good thing she thought she could not serve “two masters.”
Hallucinations from Mescal Button and Other Drugs.
It is a very familiar fact, Dr. Campbell tells us, that drug addicts are liable to experience strong hallucinations. Different drugs, however, have rather different reactions. For in stance, the individual who indulges in cocaine is liable to have sensory experiences of an acute cutaneous nature—perhaps ants running underneath his skin. The individual who prefers the taste of alcohol or mescal button will unquestionably experience hallucinations of a very strong visual character. Visual panorama for him is reality and not extraneous to life Most of the experiences refer to the present. There seems to be no resurrection of a past memory. If the experience should have any persona! coloring at all, it would probably he somewhat like the case of the delusional plumber, who, true to his profession, sits down and waits for his helper to arrive. In the reactions to this drug, called mescal button, we find duplicated experiences which we have come across before. Regarding the subjective aspect of smell, the air seems flushed with a faint perfume. As -to taste, it might be rendered very acute, so -that saliva tastes delightfully, while everything else -taste? colorless. There is also a synasthenic aspect of taste in which color is involved. Havelock Ellis upon seeing the color green had a peculiar, metallic taste. Another upon seeing blue experienced a taste phosphoric in nature. Hearing is made extraordinarily acute by this drug. Every overtone is picked up by the subject, so
(Continued on Page Two)
MEASUREMENT FOR SUCCESS
Heading For the Right Goal Is Most Important
“In three weeks, when some of you will be coming (back for your last fling at college life, some for your next to the last fling, there will be no snow covering the ground. With the coming of new grass, there will be a shift in the mental scenery as well,” stated President Moore in one of the finest speeches of this year, given before Assembly last Thursday. “You will ask yourself concerning the intangible measure of success. Through the obvious stereoscope of college life you will regard your extra curricular activities. You have made good in them perhaps, having helped put over a successful debate, having had a part in a play, etc. You are measuring yourself in units which we recognize. For example, the chapel this summer will be judged from the number of dollars spent, the number of seats provided, from any dissatisfaction that may have entered in, and last but not least, if it is finished and ready for use. We will be interested in such questions as, does the organ have a melodious tone and does it blend well with the choir.
Extra curricular activities have their place in college life. Woodrow Wilson has drawn the simile of the circus and the sideshow. Extra curricular activities are really only the
(Continued on Page Three).
JANE STEARNS STUDENT PRES.
Amid great applause and singing, Jane Stearns was acclaimed President of Student Government for next year. The procedure of election -this year was an unique one for Skidmore. Candidates were nominated in a meeting of the student body by student representatives who gave short speeches setting forth the qualifications of their candidates for the office. Heretofore small groups supporting a particular candidate have decided the elections, and the most popular and best known girl was elected. We can readily see how unfair to the many capable but lesser known students, this system proved to be. Miss Williams,, President of Student Government this year is to be greatly commended for her efforts to meet this situation -and her most efficient handling of the suggestion for the new plan of election.
The Nominating Convention.
In a mass meeting held Tuesday afternoon in the chapel, Miss Williams called upon Eleanor Towson to lay before the student body the qualities of her candidate, Jane Stearns. She did this very capably, enumerating Jane’s fairness, leadership, executive ability, sociability, personality, time spent on student activities, good sportsmanship, /broad college interests, and genuine accomplishments in the numerous and varied responsible offices she has filled during -her three years here.
Elizabeth Richmond, in a short and excellent speech, presented the qualities of her candidate, Frances Ehrlich, giving the personal, executive, and civic points which fitted Frances for the office. The nominating speeches were very fair, unbiased by personal interest, and excellently presented, and were given close attention by the student body. The only criticism of
(Continued on Page Four).

Skidmore News
Proceeds from this paper to start a Student Endowed Scholarship Fund
VOL. 3—NO. 20 SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1928 PRICE 10 CENTS
MARION THOMPSON
STUDENT LECTURER
Discusses E. Gordon Craig Before Art Appreciation Class
“Two people stand out in my mind as revolutionary leaders in The New Theatre, Ibsen and Craig,” said Marion Thompson, who, as a senior student of Stagecraft, addressed the class in Art Appreciation last Thursday in connection with the exhibition in the studio of E. Gordon Craig’s wood-block prints. “Ibsen rid the drama of its old dramatic farm, its artificiality, and breathed a new life and spirit into it. Craig cast loose all accepted traditions of playhouse conventions.”
Mr. Craig was born in 1872. He is fitted by heredity and experience to speak authoritatively of matters of the playhouse. He is the son of Ellen Terry, the greatest English speaking actress of her time, and E. W. Godwin, an architect and stage designer of the theatre. He was brought up to appreciate the truly beautiful in Art, and to dislike the cheap, gaudy, ornamentalities. He is whimsically sensitive sort of person, with a childish naivete that they say is sometimes the sign of genius.
In the prints exhibited here, I believe it is shown that he catches rare expression and fleeting poses in his work. If you notice, his work is the epitome of creativeness. No two things are the same. He worships
(Continued on Page Three).
SKIDMORE CHORUS NEW YORK. TOUR
The Skidmore College Chorus of sixty girls, under the direction and leadership of Mr. A. Stanley Osborn, leaves Thursday for its two day concert tour. Thursday evening a concert will be given at Newburgh, under the auspices of the Woman’s Club of that city, who will entertain the •chorus over night. Friday morning the chorus will go to New York city, and the concert that night will be given in the grand ballroom of the Plaza Hotel at 8:15. A dance will follow the concert, the music being furnish by a prominent New York city orchestra. Chorus members under Mr. Osborn’s direction have been preparing for the concert since Christmas. The program is of unusually high merit, and the numbers have been selected as typical of the century in which they were written. The program includes early century music up to a modern composition, that of Louis Edgar Johns, Head of the Piano Department at Skidmore ,and is as follows:
Adoramus Te Christe .... Palestrina Matona, Lovely Maiden .......... Orlando Lassus
No. 17 and 12 from Christmas Oratorio ........ John Sebastian Bach
Within Yon Gloomy Manger Lies Break Forth O Beauteous, Heavenly Light My Mother Bids Me Bind My Hair...........Josef Haydn
Meditation ............... J. S. Bach
Ave Verum, from The Holy City.................. W. A. Mozart
It Shall Be Light ...... A. R. Gaul
Sing Praise to God, the Lord 150 Psalm.................. Caesar Franck
Fly, Singing Bird .... Edward Elgar
From Night to Light ........................ Louis Edgar Johns
The financial management and
(Continued on Page Two)
PHYSICIAN INTERPRETS HALLUCINATIONS
Dr. Campbell Explains Theories at District Psychological Convention
REPORTED BY BERNICE COLE
“It is said that psychology first lost its soul; a few centuries later it lost its mind, and recently it lost its consciousness,” stated Dr. Macfie Campbell of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital at the district convention of the Upper New York State Psychologists held at Skidmore College last Friday and Saturday.
In outlining the procedure of his presentation of the topic of “Some Aspects of Hallucinations,” Dr. Campbell claimed that his only excuse for bringing this material to a body of psychologists was to gain their cooperation and to invite them to take an interest in the physician’s problems rather than consider that the physicians have any very important contribution to make, any new principles or any detailed and convincing study of the subject under consideration. It is not the physician’s word as against the psychologist’s word in this matter of mental disorder. Dr. Campbell pointed out, so muon as it is the physician’s method of experimentation as against the psychologist’s method of experimentation. The latter very often is working under definitely controlled conditions and with instruments of very great precision. In dealing with many of the human reactions, the psychologist is not able to experiment with any material which in any way influences detrimentally the individual’s life or residue. He is, therefore, debarred from dealing experimentally with those very factors which are of most practical importance. The physician, on the other hand, takes individuals who have failed adequately to meet certain tests of nature-—failure in the way of choosing a career—failure in regard to mating, to fulfilling many desires and to making necessary social adjustments. So what the physicians are dealing with in psychopathic hospitals is experimental material where they have not set the conditions, but where nature has set the conditions. Many problems, stated Dr. Campbell, arise from this group of cases where the patients have a distorted attitude towards life and must be confined in the safe-guarded atmosphere of a hospital. They may be briefly stated as follows: the actual meaning of mental deterioration; the factors which govern this particular distortion of the -universe, so that the patient lives in a disillusioned atmosphere and the particular factor which determines the sensory experience which the patient talks of.
Hallucinations from Structural Disturbance of the Brain.
Hallucinations, Dr. Campbell claims, play a different role in different types of cases. In general they are extraordinarily vivid and dramatic. An hallucinated person does not react when the ordinary person reacts, and then, besides, these experiences where the experience is a sensory one seem to have little influence on the conduct of the patient. In some cases, as soon as one challenges the phenomena or fantasy of the patient, he immediately shifts it and claims that it is an experience of a different type. In a case of hearing, for example, the patient says it is some sort of an experience, but not the same thing as when one is talking to him.
The term, hallucination, however, is a very vague and uncertain one. Speaking of an hallucination of hearing does not necessarily tell one anything about the real sensory quality of that experience. The patient can give a much more definite statement in that respect. What the physician is interested in knowing is just what the actual experience is—whether it is localized and the patient recognizes the voice he says he hears. In many instances, the patient claims it is a voice actually heard within his head. In other instances, he claims he hears a voice within his thorax or abdominal cavity, or perhaps the traditional “still, small voice of conscience.” Still more difficult to analyze is the experience of one who hears a certain person speaking in the back of his skull. Among the more familiar factors which may faring about these abnormal sensory experiences are certain structural changes in the brain, changes due to a vascular damage or perhaps a tumor on the brain. Dr. Campbell, in concluding his discussion on this particular aspect of the problem, referred to a case of a woman who claimed she must obey a voice within her that said she could not serve “two masters,” and added by way of comment that it was a good thing she thought she could not serve “two masters.”
Hallucinations from Mescal Button and Other Drugs.
It is a very familiar fact, Dr. Campbell tells us, that drug addicts are liable to experience strong hallucinations. Different drugs, however, have rather different reactions. For in stance, the individual who indulges in cocaine is liable to have sensory experiences of an acute cutaneous nature—perhaps ants running underneath his skin. The individual who prefers the taste of alcohol or mescal button will unquestionably experience hallucinations of a very strong visual character. Visual panorama for him is reality and not extraneous to life Most of the experiences refer to the present. There seems to be no resurrection of a past memory. If the experience should have any persona! coloring at all, it would probably he somewhat like the case of the delusional plumber, who, true to his profession, sits down and waits for his helper to arrive. In the reactions to this drug, called mescal button, we find duplicated experiences which we have come across before. Regarding the subjective aspect of smell, the air seems flushed with a faint perfume. As -to taste, it might be rendered very acute, so -that saliva tastes delightfully, while everything else -taste? colorless. There is also a synasthenic aspect of taste in which color is involved. Havelock Ellis upon seeing the color green had a peculiar, metallic taste. Another upon seeing blue experienced a taste phosphoric in nature. Hearing is made extraordinarily acute by this drug. Every overtone is picked up by the subject, so
(Continued on Page Two)
MEASUREMENT FOR SUCCESS
Heading For the Right Goal Is Most Important
“In three weeks, when some of you will be coming (back for your last fling at college life, some for your next to the last fling, there will be no snow covering the ground. With the coming of new grass, there will be a shift in the mental scenery as well,” stated President Moore in one of the finest speeches of this year, given before Assembly last Thursday. “You will ask yourself concerning the intangible measure of success. Through the obvious stereoscope of college life you will regard your extra curricular activities. You have made good in them perhaps, having helped put over a successful debate, having had a part in a play, etc. You are measuring yourself in units which we recognize. For example, the chapel this summer will be judged from the number of dollars spent, the number of seats provided, from any dissatisfaction that may have entered in, and last but not least, if it is finished and ready for use. We will be interested in such questions as, does the organ have a melodious tone and does it blend well with the choir.
Extra curricular activities have their place in college life. Woodrow Wilson has drawn the simile of the circus and the sideshow. Extra curricular activities are really only the
(Continued on Page Three).
JANE STEARNS STUDENT PRES.
Amid great applause and singing, Jane Stearns was acclaimed President of Student Government for next year. The procedure of election -this year was an unique one for Skidmore. Candidates were nominated in a meeting of the student body by student representatives who gave short speeches setting forth the qualifications of their candidates for the office. Heretofore small groups supporting a particular candidate have decided the elections, and the most popular and best known girl was elected. We can readily see how unfair to the many capable but lesser known students, this system proved to be. Miss Williams,, President of Student Government this year is to be greatly commended for her efforts to meet this situation -and her most efficient handling of the suggestion for the new plan of election.
The Nominating Convention.
In a mass meeting held Tuesday afternoon in the chapel, Miss Williams called upon Eleanor Towson to lay before the student body the qualities of her candidate, Jane Stearns. She did this very capably, enumerating Jane’s fairness, leadership, executive ability, sociability, personality, time spent on student activities, good sportsmanship, /broad college interests, and genuine accomplishments in the numerous and varied responsible offices she has filled during -her three years here.
Elizabeth Richmond, in a short and excellent speech, presented the qualities of her candidate, Frances Ehrlich, giving the personal, executive, and civic points which fitted Frances for the office. The nominating speeches were very fair, unbiased by personal interest, and excellently presented, and were given close attention by the student body. The only criticism of
(Continued on Page Four).